[78-L] Very western sounding Japanese dance band

[Taylor Bowie]

I know what David means.  On occasion it does seem like the list is a 
version of the old radio show "Can You Top This?"

I enjoy musical surprises of all sorts...esp. records where I can't read any 
of  the language on the label.   That's how we learn stuff sometimes! 
Nobody is born knowing much,  and nobody ever learns it all.

To quote the  woman singer on one of my Japanese  faves:  "Boogie-oogie!"


Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Very western sounding Japanese dance band


> By the way, some posters seem to find me astonished to find western 
> sounding
> dance music on a Japanese 78, and their tone essentially accuses me of 
> being a
> musical chauvinist. You should know me better than that. I auditioned a 78 
> that
> had all Japanese printing on the labels, except for two transliterated 
> titles,
> so I was expecting Japanese music. Jeez, people, I know there's good dance
> music to be found in every country!
>
> dl
>
> On 3/17/2012 11:25 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> I've found stuff like that as well,  David.  And there are some posts on
>> YouTube of Japanese stuff going back to the late 20s which is totally
>> Western dance band in concept...and a lot of it's really good!
>>
>> Speaking of Japanese stuff,  I recently got an American Columbia pressing 
>> of
>> the ever-popular Tokyo Boogie Woogie...got to be a lot more rare than the
>> Japanese issue!
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: "78L"<78-L at 78online.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 8:02 PM
>> Subject: [78-L] Very western sounding Japanese dance band
>>
>>
>>> I was just about to put this in a batch of "geddemoudahere" records but 
>>> I
>>> thought I'd sample it, and was amazed to hear a very western sounding
>>> dance
>>> band on Japanese Victor V-40256. Only the titles appear in western
>>> print..WAGA
>>> YUMA, WAGA UTA (male vocal) and GINZA KANKAN MUSUME (female vocal). 
>>> Anyone
>>> able
>>> to provide any information about this?
>>>
>>> dl
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